A five year old girl is dead after shooting herself in the head while home alone. New Orleans police say they found the child in -- bedroom in her mother's house the weapon a 38 caliber revolver was left on the bedroom shelf she was rushed to the hospital but taken off life support last Sunday. Her mother 28 year old -- Smith told cops she locked the child inside the home and then it went off to decent parents she is now charged with second degree murder.

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